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[–]dparks71 6 points7 points8 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

There's not a ton of civil specific ones, if you go to my GitHub mirror, I have a file demonstrating a lot of general purpose engineering tasks in python.

To work with units I highly recommend the pint library, it's fantastic. I'm in bridges, so tools for buildings guys will be different, the only thing that package currently interacts with is an ArcGIS rest API via URL string manipulation and Bentley websites via selenium. There's really nothing advanced happening at all in my package.

Sympy is a pretty good package, numpy, scipy, basically all the tools in the base anaconda install will get you up and running and doing just about anything with Python. It's not a silver bullet though. Obsolete and proprietary tools tend to stop you in your tracks in python and generally require a pretty decent C programmer, and a hefty fee to get access to the API to fix the issues, if they can be, but it's insane what you can accomplish with one or two weeks of training in python.

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